When is it safe to tell your partner you have Sexually Transmitted Infection in Liberia and Sierra Leone?

When is it safe  to tell your partner you have Sexually Transmitted Infection in Liberia and Sierra Leone?

STI stigma is so huge in Liberia and Sierra Leone and most people it is  difficult for them to understand that you are affected by one or many STDs. While I was growing up STIs was not talked about to our girlfriends not even our sisters. Sexually transmitted was known to us but not talked about in our gossips. Most of us as young people was easy to interpret STIs as punishment for promiscuity. Most young girls my age with STIs were often characterized as careless, whore, messy, dirty, or stupid. When someone is diagnosed with STD no matter how positive she was in her decisions, no matter how choosy  she was she was going to be talked about to other friends and faced with stigma. This was extremely difficult because no one was  prepared  for this, and she will almost certainly go through it alone.

I am begging  all my people (Men and women) here let us talk  to our children so they can know that STIs are preventable.

Yes. Each STIs causes different health problems. But overall, untreated STIs can cause cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, pregnancy problems, widespread injection to  other parts of the body, organ damage, and even death.

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